Greetings TMES Families,
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TMES Monthly Calendar February 2023
Attendance: Help us increase our school-wide attendance. We would love to have our school community celebrated for growth. Currently, we are at 95.15% daily attendance. Daily, all Mustangs are expected to be on time to school. Monthly, families will receive attendance letters if their child’s attendance is impacted. If your child is ill, call or send an e-mail to the front office. Help your child by making sure they are on time to school and prepared the night before. Daily breakfast is provided for students at 8:15 a.m. -8:40 a.m. All gates close at 8:45 a.m. and students that arrive after 8:45 a.m. will need to proceed to the front office and obtain a green slip. If your child is has three, five, seven, or more absences, California Department of Education requires parent notification via letter. Monthly, letteres are sent out to communicate to families regartding attendance. If you receive a letter and have questions regarding your attendance, please call the front office.
If a student is absent a parent should notify the school on the first day of the absence by phone during school hours or send a note with the student upon his/her return to school. The maximum amount of time allowed to clear an absence is three days. Medical and dental appointments should be scheduled after school hours when possible.
Excused Absences (BP & AR 5113)
Education Code Section 48205 permits a pupil to be excused from school under the following certain circumstances:
- Illness- including mental/behavioral
- Medical, dental, optometry, or chiropractic services
- Quarantine
- Funeral of an immediate family member
- AB 516 Participation in a cultural ceremony or event
- SB 14 Student Mental Health Day
- Best Interest Day (Court Approved)
The following is considered “justifiable personal reasons” and must be requested in writing by the parent/guardian and approved by a school official:
- Court appearance
- Other funeral attendance
- Religious holiday or ceremony
- Religious retreats (must not exceed four hours a semester)
- “Take Your Child to Work” Day (must not exceed two days in a school year)
- Immigration appearances
- Meeting a parent returning from deployment
- Parent returning from deployment
- Attendance at a sibling’s graduation (would also include excused tardies for a partial day absence)
Requests from an agency/parent for students participating in plays or movies. (Independent Study Contracts may be used if more than five consecutive days are missed.)
The following is considered “release time” pursuant to Education Code Section 46014: Participation in religious instruction or exercises (in accordance with District policy providing the student attends at least the minimum school day) not to exceed four school days in a school month.
Absences other than those listed above are unexcused.
COVID Symptoms: Please review the important reminder about illness. If your child is showing any COVID-19 symptoms, please keep your child home and contact the attendance office at (619) 656- 6252 x 550110 to report their illness and reason for absence. What are COVID Like Symptoms? A person (vaccinated or unvaccinated) has one or more symptoms associated with COVID-19: Possible symptoms include fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and/or diarrhea.
Do I have to test my child for return to school when they were sent home with COVID-like symptoms or could not come to school due to COVID-like symptoms? Yes. A single negative antigen result in response to an onset of symptoms is acceptable to allow return to school/work when symptoms are improving and your child has been fever-free without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours. What if my child has a documented pre-existing medical condition? Please contact your doctor and contact our nurse, Maia at (619) 656-6252x 550110. Nurse Maia will help assist you further. Additional Questions: Please reach out to covtest4@cvesd.org if you have any questions. CVESD is following the SDCOE Decision Tree. Please see the link below. SDCOE Decision Tree: COVID-19-Decision-Tree.pdf (finalsite.net)
